ESQUIRE COLUMNIST RIDICULES SEN. RON JOHNSON’S SENATE HEARING

Esquire columnist Charles P. Pierce has shredded Republican Sen. Ron Johnson for running “a grievance-laced puppet show starring the president*'s disgruntled devotees,’ that had the presence of Ken Starr as a completely embarrassing Republican hack as “icing on the cake.”

In his December 16, 2020 column, Pierce said the show’s abiding theme “was giving lawyers whose asses have been kicked all over every judicial system a chance to plead their threadbare cases one more time. In this, the hearing succeeded.

The two star witnesses in this regard were Jesse Binnall, who got his ass kicked in Nevada, and James Troupis, who got his ass kicked in Wisconsin. (Troupis is a very special case. He and his wife voted by in-person absentee ballot in Wisconsin and, therefore, he was arguing before that state's Supreme Court that his own vote should be invalidated.)”

Pierce noted that it was Starr who provided the squid ink designed to obscure the fact that all those asses got kicked in all those courtrooms. “You see, as Starr explained it, the suits all lost on ‘procedural’ grounds, and not because the suits were based on the spiders in the president*'s head. Senator Rand Paul was quite taken by this argument,” the columnist stressed.

“So the courts have not decided the facts, they don't like elections. They stayed out and they found an excuse to stay out of it.

The fraud happened, the election in many ways was stolen, and the only way it will be fixed is by reinforcing the laws in the future. If you think this is an open invitation for further voter-suppression activity in Republican-dominated state legislatures, backed up by similar finagling from national Republican politicians and activists, well, that means you've been paying attention.

Ultimately, once the White House changes hands, and after the fumigation protocols have been completed, the Republicans will hold hearing after hearing into the ‘disputes’ over the 2020 elections, which they themselves fomented, with an eye toward giving their counterparts in the states tools to suppress votes further. This has been an abiding crusade for conservatives since the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965, and they're not likely to abandon it just because it didn't work this time around,” Pierce concluded.

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